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I know it’s rude to say “I told you so” — but I kind of did.
Three years ago, when Northrop Grum­man (NYSE:NOC) pre­de­ces­sor com­pa­ny Orbital ATK announced a pro­gram to build its very first heavy lift rock­et — the “OmegA” — I pre­dict­ed that the rock­et “may not get built.”
First Orbital’s, and lat­er Northrop’s desire to grab a piece of the lucra­tive mar­ket for launch­ing large satel­lites into orbit was cer­tain­ly under­stand­able — espe­cial­ly with bil­lions of dol­lars worth of new Pen­ta­gon launch con­tracts com­ing up. But the truth was that, between Unit­ed Launch Alliance’s Atlas V, …